LifeStraw: A New Idea to Provide Africa with Safe Drinking Water

At any given moment, about half of the world’s poor are suffering from water-related diseases, of which over 6,000 – mainly children – die each day by consuming unsafe drinking water. LifeStraw (hat tip PSD Blog) is a new invention to help reach the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by half the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by the year 2015.

Mobilising LifeStraw® offers relief from waterborne diseases of major public concern such as typhoid, cholera, dysentery and diarrhoea. As a personal and mobile water purification tool, LifeStraw® is designed to turn most of the surface water into drinking water, thus providing access to safe water wherever you are.

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